by Josee Malette | Jun 9, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
Morale amongst Emergency Medicine providers is at a crushing low. If you were to walk through any Emergency Department (ED) or spend 5 minutes on #MedTwitter, this would be abundantly apparent. Slogging through a pandemic, EM providers put their heads down – they put...
by Tayler Young, Lucy Karp, Alex Coutin | May 19, 2022 | EDI, Featured, Infographics, Medical Education
At CAEP 2021, the SLGBTQIA + panel identified perceived or real barriers to the inclusion of sexual and gender minority content in Emergency Medicine residency curriculums. Here, we present an infographic documenting the findings and recommendations from the CAEP...
by Shahbaz Syed | May 5, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
We’ve previously spent some time talking about implicit bias and its impact on patient care.It is of course important to recognize that we all have elements of implicit bias – these blindspots are programmed within us, and recognizing them is an important...
by Stella Yiu, Marianne Yeung | Nov 25, 2021 | Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Onboarding and transition to independent practice are challenging (1–3). New attending physicians need knowledge to function in novel roles (4), (Yeung, Cheung et al, personal communication) However, this knowledge is often tacit. By improving our understanding of ...
by Michael Wong, Paul Pageau, Shahbaz Syed | Aug 5, 2021 | CME, Featured, Ultrasound
Canadian national guidelines recommend Point of Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) image archiving for documentation, and to facilitate quality improvement and assurance – key components of driving great patient-centred care with ultrasound. The CAEP Emergency Ultrasound...
